Land mines and input availability squeezing global crop production from war in Ukraine

Ukrainian farmers are facing a dangerous situation this growing season, which could further limit global crop production.

Roman Grynyshyn, a Ukrainian liaison for farmers, says Russia has been attacking agricultural land by deploying land mines. “They’ve been mining the actual fields.  Now, it is another problem for the farmers to decide whether to harvest or not.  You do not know whether there are mines are not.  The combine might explode.  We’ve had a lot of cases unfortunately.”

He tells Brownfield it happened to his friend recently.

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